If you want to understand copyright law, you should (a) start actually reading some of the law and (b) read @Blanketman_01
’s patient but systematic dismantling of numerous misunderstandings of copyright law, in his posts over the last several days. https://
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/Blanketman_01/status/1744066781038493893
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Understanding Copyright Law: Key Misconceptions Explained
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VCR Licensing Precedent: Legal Considerations for Hardware Manufacturers
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it would have been a relative precedent, had they preloaded the VCR with unlicensed content. but *those* guys had the good sense not to.
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Legal dispute acknowledges AI infringement basis implicitly
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Re “main use case”, i can imagine a reply like this: “You just said a lot of time it doesn’t infringe. I agree. But you have thereby also just implicitly acknowledged that sometimes it does infringe. Now that you have acknowledged the fundamental premise of my suit is true,
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IP Law Implications for AI: Copyright and Trademark Concerns
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Basically, I am seeing two kinds of responses to Marcus & @Rahll @ieespectrum here: People who understand the basics of copyright and trademark law and realize the implications. People who have no idea how IP law actually works but just enjoy making comments. You could
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Japanese AI Case Study: Beyond Assumptions and Uninformed Debate
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We discussed the Japanese case in the paper. It’s not the haven you imagine. It’s tiresome tbh when people are really exercised by an issue but won’t take a 18 minutes to read a really good summary that came out yesterday, and instead just make uninformed shit up.
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Artificial Intelligence Privacy Challenges in Schools
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#ArtificialIntelligence stirs privacy challenges for schools https://
zurl.co/fYOB via @politico #AI #CES #CES2024 #MWC24 #IoT #5G #FutureOfWork @CES @Paula_Piccard @gvalan @Hal_Good @FinMKTG @FrRonconi @JBarbosaPR @albertogaruccio @FinMKTG -
Legal Datasets and Market Economics for AI Training
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This ignores the fact that there are estimated hundreds of millions of public domain or permissive licensed images. Research could easily continue with those… Further, if there's a market for data the prices will drop quickly and incentivise the creation of legal datasets.
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Research vs Commercial Use: Legal and Regulatory Distinctions
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Research is inherently different to commercial exploitation. There are often explicit clauses in laws & regulations allowing that. Don't conflate the two. It's a slippery slope fallacy.
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Fair Use and Corporate Risk in AI Training Legal Debate
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The fact companies claim Fair Use is only necessary if it's prima facie infringement—which legal scholars increasingly agree (see Workshop from yesterday). Given this, debating what's "legal" is weird because Fair Use is always case-by-case and corps intentionally took the risk.
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Copyright and AI Training: Public Domain Content Misuse
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Interesting you're defending her because that's the same situation that creators find themselves in against MidJourney. But, unlike those being infringed by MJ, she had placed her content in the public domain.